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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:41 PM Jan 2020

Trump mocks Booker over suspended presidential campaign

I am not into violence, but I really would love to slap Trumps face.


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/477977-trump-mocks-booker-over-suspended-presidential-campaign

By Brett Samuels - 01/13/20 11:31 AM EST


President Trump on Monday mocked Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) withdrawal from the Democratic primary, tweeting sarcastically that he would be able to "rest easy tonight."

"Really Big Breaking News (Kidding): Booker, who was in zero polling territory, just dropped out of the Democrat Presidential Primary Race," Trump tweeted. "Now I can rest easy tonight. I was sooo concerned that I would someday have to go head to head with him!"

Booker announced earlier Monday that he would suspend his presidential campaign. He failed to qualify for the last Democratic debate and did not meet the threshold to participate in Tuesday's debate, and the senator acknowledged he did not see a path to the nomination.

"I will carry this fight forward — I just won’t be doing it as a candidate for president this year," Booker said in an email to supporters.

The president has made a habit of sending sarcastic tweets after a Democrat suspends their campaign for president, firing off similar messages in recent months about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D), among others, as the 2020 field winnows.................................



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tblue37

(65,403 posts)
1. Even his cultists should eventually get tired of so much nanny-nanny boo-booing--except
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:46 PM
Jan 2020

that for them it's all about "owning the liberals."

But maybe it will turn off some swing voters. One can only hope.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
8. Most of them have to google Cory Booker
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 04:11 PM
Jan 2020

They don’t have a clue. Not that it matters to them.

On second thought, would they know what google is?

coti

(4,612 posts)
3. In other words, he likely was worried that Booker would eventually get a message together
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:47 PM
Jan 2020

and get the nomination.

getagrip_already

(14,764 posts)
4. really big talk..
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:55 PM
Jan 2020

From a guy who is rigging his own party to not hold primary votes for his job. What you afraid of donny, mitt might come after you and win?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
6. President Obama has also been nominated for an Oscar.
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 04:09 PM
Jan 2020

That nomination is there forever just like Trump’s impeachment. Both are now history.

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